Chapter 2885 - 1368: Interlude · Review

Game Time PM20:08

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[Your mental connection has been detected]

"I have a little donkey~ I never ride~"

[Entering The Realm of Innocence—Player Public Space soon]

"One day I got the urge to ride it to the market~"

[You are about to access the public area. Since you have chosen to directly access the public space, you cannot leave the designated area to enter the Mystic Dark Forest. All space teleportation spells/skills/talents/effects/items will be frozen]

"It has horns on its head~ horns~"

[You have successfully logged into the default area: Public Space No.803]

"It has ■■ on its back~ ■■~"

[Welcome, Chaotic Neutral Tan Mo]

"Goodbye, friend~ Goodbye, friend~ Goodbye, fri..."

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The next second, Motan, who regained control over his body, smacked his lips and made an unhappy ’tch’ sound. He then poked his little finger into his nose, digging around, while staring with dead fish eyes through the shimmering teleportation gate. He appeared in the high-tech modern style Public Space No.803, sent a message casually, and sat down on a nearby bench, spending his last virtual currency to use the self-service system to fix himself a cup of iced cola, sipping it in boredom.

By the way, virtual currency circulates only in the player public space, supporting only player-to-system transactions. Its exchange rate to RMB is 100:1, which means the large cup of cola that costs at least three RMB in outside fast-food stores costs just one penny in [Public Space], with no difference in quantity or taste, except it can’t replenish body fluids. It’s just like regular cola.

Of course, even though you can buy things using virtual currency in this game, all items are consumables or decorations bound to public space only, like the cola in Motan’s hand, or Yi Dong, who transformed his private room in public space into a three-story villa facing the sea with blooming flowers. The overall cost was 536,210 virtual currency, roughly equivalent to five thousand three hundred RMB, a price that would buy at most half a square meter in a second or third-tier city in reality, given the location isn’t too ridiculous.

And what Yi Dong can purchase has already reached the spending ceiling for virtual currency consumption in this game...

In other words, except for those with a severe collection obsession who don’t want to miss out on anything in the mall, those who simply want to enhance their gaming environment by spending money, at most, make a villa for themselves in the public space and cram the storage room with goods, all these won’t exceed six thousand RMB.

As for Motan’s small amount of virtual currency, it was naturally not exchanged by himself but was gained by sneaking a flashy silver candlestick from Yi Dong’s villa in his private space the last time and selling it at a clearance price in the public space stores.

The original price of the candlestick was 20 virtual currency, and Motan sold it for 2 virtual currency, using the first to exchange for a cup of premium Geisha coffee during his last visit to public space, and now using the second for an iced cola.

Yes, be it the Geisha that costs over three hundred dollars a pound in reality, or iced cola priced about three RMB, here they all sell for just 1 virtual currency, which is... quite absurd.

Many people are very puzzled, as The Realm of Innocence seems to showcase their ability to make money through mall operations, yet their money-making is as perfunctory as it gets. It even gives people a feeling of ’I’m just symbolically making some money from you, please stop critiquing how we pay our employees, it’s very annoying’ ← that feeling, which is very——

"Absurd!"

Casually tossing the empty cup toward an Orc girl not far away, Motan continued to grumble as he watched his thrown cup swiftly ’evaporate’ mid-air, completely disappearing less than half a meter out of his hand, cursing lowly again: "Ridiculously absurd!"

The next second, his head was suddenly smacked forcefully from behind.

"What’s wrong with you?"

Motan rolled his eyes, retorting without looking back, for no other reason than that the person capable of ’smacking his head’ in this free space must be on his whitelist, and in Tan Mo’s public space settings, only one person is on the whitelist, eliminating any guesswork.

"Nothing wrong, just simply wanted to smack you."

Yi Dong plopped down beside Motan, snorted with a serious face, then smacked the latter’s head again, his face expressionless, looking like a Zombie.

Motan wasn’t upset at all, instead, he smiled with interest, raising an eyebrow as he spoke: "Seems like you have quite a grudge against me, did something good happen?"

"Do you have some misunderstanding about the term ’good news’?"

Yi Dong glared at him hotly, then followed Motan’s gaze to the shimmering crystal screen not far away, frowning as he asked, "Since when did you start caring about the rankings?"

Motan didn’t answer immediately but responded after a long pause, saying calmly, "I just noticed that her ranking has risen again, it seems today’s battle gave her quite the insight."

"Who do you think deserves the credit?"